volcano

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A mountain with an opening through which lava, ash, and gas erupt from inside the earth.

   I climbed an active volcano while I was on vacation.

2. 2
   verb

   To erupt or burst forth suddenly.

   Anger volcanoed up inside her.

From Italian vulcano, from Vulcano (“a small volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea”), from Latin Vulcānus (“Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalworking”). Doublet of bolcane and Vulcan.

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